#first

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#first #five #four #i #light

When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place. ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#car #energy #first #form #gallon

The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born. ↗

— Benny Green

#almost #born #called #day #dream

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally. ↗

— Brian Austin Green

#artists #bars #brown #entire #first

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city. ↗

— John Green

#chicago #city #favorite #first #i

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that. ↗

— William Green

#building #doing #first #foremost #i

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

#bodies #children #control #crawl #few

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#actually #first #first of all #interest #moment

Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority. ↗

— Andy Grove

#converting #first #gallon #like #mileage

Success is like a high-rise building I'm on the first floor. There are a lot of people in the basement or the parking lot but I was lucky enough to have made it to the first floor and I'm looking to make it to the penthouse. ↗

— Justin Guarini

#building #enough #first #floor #i